Subj : Help (again
To   : Glucose Grin
From : Digital Man
Date : Mon Nov 01 2004 04:49 pm

  Re: Help (again
  By: Glucose Grin to All on Mon Nov 01 2004 01:44 pm

 > Hi there.
 > 
 > I've forgotten how to write a login script in js :(  I know I had one that
 > worked (at least I think I did), but it didn't look like this....
 > 
 > load("sbbsdefs.js");
 > var uname, LoggedIn;
 > bbs.logout();
 > node_action = NODE_LOGON;
 > while (bbs.online && (!LoggedIn)) {
 >        printf("\r\n\1nEnter Name, Number, '\1hNew\1n', or
 > '\1hGuest\1n'\r\nNN...: ");
 >        uname=console.getstr("",25,K_LOWPRIO+K_E71DETECT+K_TAB+K_UPRLWR);
 >        truncsp(uname);
 >        if (uname=="")
 >        {
 >                printf("Blank");
 >                bbs.hangup;

The correct way to call a JavaScript function is with () after the function
name. Example: bbs.hangup();

 >        if (uname=="New")
 >        {
 >                printf("New");
 >                bbs.newuser;
 >                bbs.logon;

Same problem here.

 >        }
 >        if (bbs.login(uname,"PW: "))
 >        {
 >                printf (user.name+" login complete?!?");
 >                if (bbs.logon)

And here.

 >                {
 >                        printf (user.name+" logon executed");
 >                        if (user.name == "") {LoggedIn=false};
 >                        if (!LoggedIn){printf("\r\nLog on procedure Failed fo
 > unknown reasons.\r\n")};
 >                }
 >        }
 > }
 > 
 > What happens is that it runs thru, the user.name remains blank after
 > bbs.logon is executed, even tho bbs.login and bbs.logon are both successful.

You're not actually *calling* these functions, so I would expect all kinds of
things to go wrong.

 > Any ideas as to what I'm doing wrong?

Yeah, you're missing the () :-)

 > Also, the newer DOVE-Net areas (like this one) arn't on my system.  a little
 > off-topic, but is there an easy way to add these?

http://synchro.net/docs/dove-net.txt

                                                  digital man

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